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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
An Aged Tramp.

Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of South
Carolina, and his dog Fido are nov in
this city. The Captain was 81 years
old the 4th OF July this year. Edo
will be 5 year old his next birthdsy.
They walked up from South Carolina
early in the season, and now they are
walking back again, taking things com
fortably, not hurrying themselves un-
duly, and seeing the sights as they 60
along. It is the Captains seventh
visit ION foot) TO the North and Fido's
second. 1t is only justice to Fido to
mention that he has also accompani-
ed his master on e Southern pedes-
TRAN tour which took him as far as
Texas-a long journey for asmalldog.
The Captains eyes are as bright,
his checks vs. rudy, his laugh
as CHEEKY as ever. He has to pull
out his spectacles when it ONE to
reading the newspaper, but dosen't
need them for books unless the typo
is smaller than it should be, and Oft
ten writes two-thirds o. a letter befors
it occurs to him that they are NOT on
his nose. He has enjoyed his summer
North very much he says. Besides
seeing this city and Boston he has
taken a ramble through Vermont and
New Hampshire. and has revisited the
village up in Maine where he learned
the shipwright's trade in 1917, before
he went to sea a-sailoring and learned
that trade. The mention OF his I've
years before the mast reminded him
of a story. When he got home from
sea his own mother didn't know him,
and liked his looks so little that shs
was unwilling to harbor him oysF
night. As he IA turning away she
asked him where he lived when he wal
at home. 81 was raised about heah,"
he meekly replied. At this his BROTH
er shouted, "It's Bob" and the lat
ted calf was sacrificed in due form.
To the question whether 30
wasn't sometimes afraid OF be-
ing robbed on those loag jarats
the Captain replied, with a knowing
smile, that he never carried money
enough in his pockets to makeit worth
aaybody's while, and that be had
taken care of his habits in that respect
should be known. Whenever be gets
a few dollars that he has no immediate
use for he drops in at the first postof
nee and sends them home. Once, on
a country road down South, a negro
undertook. under the pretense OF car
rying the 'boss' bag. to despoil him,
but as he made a dash for the cane
brake the Captain fired two shots af
him. The negro dropped the bag and
vanished, and the captain hasn't seen
him since. 81 don't know whether
hit him." he says, 'but hit the BAG
anyway"
Unless Unexpectedly detained on tne
way, he and Fido will reach South
Carolina aboutthe LIST OF November
perhaps sooner f hemakes q comtem-
plated purchase OF horse and busgy!
for the more convenient carrying OF
his books, etc. Once home. they VIII
take a month or six weeks rest, ana
then start on a walk across the CON
tinent to San Francisco. II THINK
now we shall come back around tne
Horn" said the Captain.-Hartiofo
Courier.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
CONDENSED NEWS.
washington News ,,ema.

Secretary Fairehild approved the recom-
incubation OF Collector Magone for the
removal o. twenty 81 400 clerks in The
New York custom house. Ii is said that
these clerks have Jailed in tSo separate
civil service examinations for promotions.
The secretary OF interior has reversed
the commissioners decision eaneeling the
timber culture entry OF John Halvorson OF
the northeast quarter section 10. town.
ship 149, range ~ C~rookston district. 1t
WAS claimed that the land was not devoid
OF timber as the law requires. The secre-
tary believes that where the local land Of
Eeers gise al ~entryman HIS entry on the
testimony submitted on tho point above
mentioned he should nave the land.
The officials at the war department read
with s1rprise n dispatch from San Fran
cisco. stating that the grand jury Of Ari.
IONA had found an indictment against
Geronimo and his followers. and that an
effort would be made to bring him back
Tor trial. Geronimo and seventeen OF the
most vicious members OF his band are still
held at Fort PickeBs, Fla. While il is
trnes as ono of the officials expressed 1t,
that Geronimo Is a white elephant upon
tho hands OF the government, nothing
eeuid be further from the purpose Of the
administration than to deliver him into
the custody OF the civil authorities.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
Gov. oglesby's Significant Utter
ances.

Chicago Special; Gov. oglesby made an
address to the Locomotive Engineers con.
~vention on the 10th, which indicates pref
~ clearly his feeling towards the anareh-
lists. In trenchant words he denounc ed the
lawless methods Of the REDS" There
nave been cases in this fair land, y he said,
when hungry men with hungry wives and
children at home have listened to the
flashy sentences OF men who thought they
could interpose themselves between the
laboring people and the steady march OF
law and order and justice. Acts of vio-
lence followed, and, all too late. they
found they were not potent enough to
change the tide OF affairs. Appeals to the
justice OF the people will always result in
justice; but violence and the o~utrages OF
the laws and OF Justice win meet with in
evitable punishment"
The Governor was often %applauded, and
his remarks as to violence were understood
to be a statement Of his attitude in
the case of the ccndemned anarehis Is.
Everybody inferred from the Governors
speech that the anarchists stand a slim
chance of pardon, or even a communication
of sentence.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

The latest returns from the Prohibi
ton ele ction oflast month"; Tennessee
plaos the anti-Prohibition majority
in the state at 25,77s, and the final
compilation will probably leave it at
very near this figure. This is a much
larger majority than the first report
foreshadowed, and shows a more de
cided satisfaction with the present
state Of things than was supposed to
exist. The amendment cannot be
again Submitted for seven years. but
as they have local option in Tennes-
see there is nothing in the way Of car
.ying oil a Prohibition anvass in the
various counties.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

Rev. Hugh o'Pentecost, one OF
&c prge's most trusted lieutenants,
rar for mayor of Newark, n. j., and
out OF total poll Of over $4,000
voiss he received only about l 800.
This George party had the most ex.
ira VACANT expectations OF a sweeping
triumph in Newark. 1t is q large
ma ufacturing center and the ma.
iori " of the voters are those working
people on whom George mainly de
pended.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

Nova Scotia will try the trick OF
tai ling the Americas cup out of the
cui'tody of the New York Yacht Club
mel # summer, a wealthy sydicate in
Hslifax having decided to build a
va sht in time for the season OF IS.
This attempt to do what tho English
ami Scotch yachtsmen have so often
faIed TO accomplish viii excite more
am usement than alarm amongthe ex-
pefts of New York and Boston.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
Young woman,s Farm.

Several years ago, there came to ST.
Paul from New York a bright, hand.
some and bu~siness-like young lady O,
twenty summers. She was the only
daughter of a widowed mother, bnt
was well provided with the necessities
OF Lille. From there she iourneyed ON
to Darlington, Wells county, Dakota,
where she purchased several sections
OF land. She engaged a workman,
bought several horses, farm imnle.
ments, etc., and get him to work az
the piowing art. A small crop wa snut
n and the young lady returned to
New York. Every summer, however
h visited her farm. Ali imnroya'
ments were carried out ACCORDING to
her instructions, and this year a cron
Will be removed from 1000 acras
d farm is the most valuable in the
territory. Originally the land was mr..
enased from the Northern Pac,f;c
railway company. The lady was in
town a few days ago en- route to her
iarm; She is now the wife OF Elliott
smith, one of the most prominent
New York lawyers, who accomnan;ed
ner on her journey. Mrs. Smith ID in.
oeed q most noble example of her sex.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
The Phi dmont Fair. which on

The Piedmont Fair, which opened
at atlanta, Ca, Oct. 10. is said to be
successful. as an exhibit OF the re.
sources ,,f that rich section OF the
South around the Georgia capital, in
Guiding Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee
and the { i've Carolinas. It is a region
rich in minerals, in timber and in az
ricnltural resources; it boasts of the
largest MI mber Of factories and indus
tries OF airy portion of the South; and
il has sht,wn q wonderful advance IN
the last ten years. A former exhibi-
ton, in 1889, gave Atlanta q wonder
hi impetus, and was She immediate
cause Of ID Urge investments Of capital.
The preset, c Piedmont Exposition is
asQeh bett sr advertised and known
fhaa is ~fedecessor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

1t Is expected that the Pacific rail.
road commission will only use three
iourths OF the sum allotted by con-
press for their expenses. More than
$4,000 of the 100000 a~ppropria-
ted fer their use viii be returned to
the { treasury as a surplus. This is
the frst time in many years that
such > vast amount of work and ter
ritorll has been gone over by an i'll
vestieating committee at a less cost
than the congressional estimate, for
IN most cases the government iunket-
ing trips have been rather expensive
journeys.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

Russia has had a season ofunparal.
lsled hot weather. A recent letter
from Moscow says; For the past
month we have had no rain, not even
a passing thunder shower. There is
scarcely a green shrub or tree in the
city OF suburbs. Everything is
s~corehed, yellow and dust-laden. The
county presents the same parched
and wi uttered appearance. The nights
bring Us little or no relief, the still sui
fccatii ,g sultriness of the day being
then only varied occasionally by very
slIgnt tloutherly breezes, which are too
warm 70 be refreshing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

y rs. Augusta Gramer, the buxom
yorng wife of a Brooklyn man with
SIX children, eloped and went west,
whsnce she writes glowing accounts OF
her adventures among Indians and
cow boys. She has settled down near
Waia Walla, w. T., as leader OF a
ban ! OF cowboys, by whom she is
treated like a queen, and whom she
invests with a mobility and gallantry
she Did not find prevalent among the
5enizens OF Brooklyn"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
shot at Her Eather.in-Law.

At San Francisco, Mrs. Clara Belle Me,
Donald, who is the defendant in a suit for
divorce commenced by her husband, X. III.
Mcdonald, vice-prcsident oil the Pacific
Bank, went to the reception room OF the
Baldwin Hotel, where she met her father.
in .law. Richard II. Mcdonald, presi-
dent OF the Pacific Bank, q well known
p~hilanthropist and candidate for Govern.
or on the Prohibition ticket at the last
state election. Mrs. Mcdonald demanded
500. 600. which she agreed to accept as a
compromise in the divorce case, and upon
herfnther.iu-law refusing to pay theamount
she drew u revolver and shot at him
three times. None OF the shots took ef
feet and the woman was placed under ar.
rest.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

.Gen. Boulanger, the tronblesom.
fastor In the army and political ad.
ministration Of France. who is under
81 peasion and arrest, now acknowl.
ed ges to the Minister of War that his
resent offensive utterance in reference
to bis official supsriors, vas 'indis-
er'et." It is evident from recent ad,
viz s that the popular idol was not
reiired from the var Department am
To-, soon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

Time was when the farms OF the
Hest and South were fairly plastered
with mortgages; but this state OF af-
fairs IS changing. The agricultural re.
port makes Observation-Disclosures
that .the burden of debt is decreas.
ing. lind is relatively less than it was
ten fears ago." There has been a de,
trsase IN number .aa eGount OF farm
mortsaees.and even in the Southern
%tatil s the practice ofasking advances
on ci owing crops shows signs OF yield
Inv 4, a better system.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

justices, including Field. Miller, Harlan and
Matthews, and then said:
Mr.. Pryor. you may have printed at
once, IL possible, the parts OF the record
which raise these questions, and hand
them to us this afternoon or early tosmor-
row morning, and on Monday we will indi-
cate what is further necessary to be done.
Mr.. Pryor bowed, and al of the counsel
for the anarchists and most OF the large
audience which had assembled streamed
out of the court room.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

The new Indiana state capitol is
about Finished. 1t cost 50. 100000,
aild 500 900 has been appropriated
for furniture. The building looks as
if it might have cost $1,000 900. and
Ir diana ishsn~s 5ser Its good bar
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

Gov. zulick OF Arizona, in his annual
rsport estimates the population OF
tle territory at go, an increase Of
n'larly $4,000. over the census estl.
n ates of 1880. This is supposed to
bs an exagceration.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

whose Interests they have IN charge aud who
necessarily cannot be familiar with their wants
or their many existing and rapidly growing
needs. which can only be secured through the
means Of q direct representation. responsibility
OF the governing powers to those whose interests
they have in charge, which means sef-govern-
ment through statehood.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
Over forty buildinra IL n. A..

Over forty buildings in the business No.
t uon OF Mar'nsste, Mich. are among things
losers, but it is impossible inst ns. - y 70. a
~ any oil them and learn their losses ~
insurance; Wilson Bros, wars stara
ana building; c. ]. Hatch, grocery stors.
pus feineke. saloon and building: Charles
meIheke, grocery store and BUILDING. M "a
moIan, shoe store; Mrs. Perkins. two stors
LIZ. innes' Hastings Il Trotter, meat mar.
1ess !. ,. verhaien, grocery store; NJ. II.
+ Loy W;sa, lewelry store and buildings; q.
"hiiams. hardware stock and bu;Iding
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

The cars were piled up on both tracks,
blockading the tracks for about eight
hours. Quite a number OF cattle we're kill.
ed, and the engineer, fireman and two
stockmen seriously injured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27
The report further says:

The area sown to wheat this spring QSSD Is
estimated at 3.S92,3s9 acres, and the yield
from present Indications win approximate Co.
100000 Enthusiastically double the production
OF 1856, or about one-seventh of the entire
wheat crop of the United States last year.
The governor speaks enthusiastically of
the stock growing interests of the territory,
taking up each particular section and giving
it thorough consideration. DR.. Alloway re-
ceives a tribute at the hands of the governor
and the matter of contagious diseases is
carefully discussed. Chambers has obtained
considerable foothold among the horses of
the territory, bat
STRINGENT MEASURES ARE NOW TAKEN
to suppress it The mineral resources OF the
territory are broadly discussed by the gov
-ernor, who speaks more than hopefully of
The outlook for coal. The discussion of the
forestry outlook for the territory is brief but
pointed, and full OF figures The wooded
area of Dakota is placed at 3d.
600. 900 acres; ~ ,617, $50 trees have been
planted in Dakota under the pro-
visions of the timber culture act, and the
governor recommend a continuation of the
law, guarded by such provisions as congress
may see tit to place around it, rather than its
repeal. The labor and manufactures of the
territory are considered, and a partial list of
the manufacturing establishments given;
in considering the condition of the,
Indians of the territory the gov
ernor shows that 26,S47, 105 acres
of the public domain are taken up
by reservations for the use of 30,076 In
dians He appends reports made to him on
the condition of the Indians from Agents
Clifford at Fort Berthold, Kinney at Yankton,
Anderson at Grow Creek, Gallagher at Pine
Ridge, Mc Laughlin at Standing Rock, Jep-
kins at Sisseton, aud Cromsie at Devils
Lake. A description of the great Sioux
reservation and of the attempted legislation
in congress for it's opening follows, closing
with a recommendation that a portion of
the reservation be thrown open. Consider
able space is given to the question of edu.
cation for the territory and each institution
of learning is described at length Stats
tics given show:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

he governor OF Montana announces
4 his report that the Territory con.
sns 10000 human beings aud
ss90. 600 cattle and horses.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

The report gives in detail the number of
pupils and teachers In all the cities of the
territory where over two hundred pupils are
enrolled. The governor merely flies the re.
port OF Adjt-Gen. Tyner in full on his dis
cussior of the militia. The report is very
comprehensive. and shows that the Dakota
national guard is receiving closer attention
than that of any other territory.
H YANKroN ASYLUM MATTER
is easily disposed of. In a long discussion
of the territorial public institutions the re-
port OF the superintendent of the Yankton
asylum is given. in which that official saws.
The oyercrowded condition of this hespital
renders it necessary for us, in the majority Of
cases in the male wards, to assign two patients
TO one room eight by ten feet, thus rendering
recovery almost impossible. In the doT,nItoriss
of the male wards we are Obliged to pnt frop,
for six"
Following this report the governor saws:
The territorial legislature, at its seyente eneh
session., appropriated the sum of 500 300 for
the construction OF two additional wings and
other improvements at this asylum.
Charges OF irregularity having been made
against a majority Of the board OF trustees 81
this institution and an examination having been
made by the public examiner and a report of
such examination having been filed in this office
upon careful consideration of such report AMI
the testimony taken / have thus far deemed IL
my duty to withdraw my sanction to the ex-
penaibuEe OF TINS appropriation under the d.
rection Of the presnt board.
Upon the vital question of division and adj.
mission the governor says:
The last legislature provided for submit,,r,
the question Of division of the territory east and
west. standard parellel, to the people on lie
hrst Monday of November, 1887, and the ones
ton Is now being earnestly canvassed in ali nsr,a
OF the territory. A deep interest Is taken in
this Question of admission. and whether
admitted as one or two states there are nnann
reasons why the people should not he lonoa,
deprived of the right to manage their ~
affairs. This character of the legislation neoes-
our TERRITORY, aud the well being and har,rinoss
6O0,eOO people cannot be obtained thronyh
the medium OF congress, the members nt
which are far distant from the people
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

sistance to Kerry.
The counse for the Chicago anarchists
make the application for writ of error to
the Supreme court of the United States.
The military are ready to quell the trouble
in Montana, which is reported to be very
serious.
DIR. Webb, Vanberbilt's son.in-law. has
been indicted by the grand Jury fer DRIVING
a six-horse team from the summit OF
Mount Washington to the Glen house in
one hour and nine minutes.
The Minnesota & Northwesternis no.
ucs stirs up the other roads, and the Wis.
eonsln Central also declares it's intention
OF selling two-thousand. mile tickets at two
cents per mile.
A Sioux City man confesses hat his
young son murdered a girl cousin of the
latter fuur years ago.
The Wisconsin Central gives lower rates
between terminal points than to interme.
diate points.
At Sioux City, James Lambersop tbs
father Of the boys who were arrested 70,
robbery, made n sensational confession
our years ago one of the boys shot and
Killed his cousin, a girl OF thirteen wears.
ne was arrested at the time, but the whole
family swore that the killing was accident.
al and the boy was discharged. The 70.
sher Just confessed that the killing vas n
deliberate murder. Lamberson saws H.
boy and his cousin quarreled and the boy
threatened o kill her. He went 10 ~
house, got the gun and blew out the GIRLS
brains. e"fs
Pensions granted: c. L. Piper M;,xo,
keei Z. Bills, Plainfeld, Q. p. Davis Nil.
waqkee; w. s. Marier, Cross Plains. w r
Evans, Sun Prairie; A. d. st. Peters Ka
w%auneei r. Kennedy, MiIwdnka-. w
Woods. Eau Claire; t. j. Shannon, 0,;or.
z. +, M~arquardt, Sank City; j Roso
Mauston; j.. II. Preston, Hixton: IT Al
corn. Lancaster; G. T. Newman. Wincbes
Ter; q. Knapp. H~ortonville; N. N. Terr;lI
Boyceville; +. Mccormick. Towerv;lla. y
booge. Milwaukee; j. II. Posnot Rod
pnrg; i. Green, Boscobel; j.. b. Craie Sbs.
poyga1 Falls. Minnesota: Widow Of w
:. haskeli, Minneapolis; original; H. Love.
Q !; Minneapolis; j. f. Doak, Pinsstone.
:: NJ. Sweet, lie Roy. Dakota i ~
Knapp, Lead City; H. Frantic. sioar
Joseph Older left Billings for punan,.
.efry; driving Tour wild bronchos attacboS
Q a loaded wagon. Soon afterward NJ
a'es returning from the ferry iound him T..
rug read IN the road near Laurel Stat;y
- y supposed that the team
ne, ialiIns irom the wagon, was rpn ana
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-25

The split so long anticipated has
come in the ranks OF the Knights OF
Labor. Mr.. Powderly has mani.
tested a high order of intelligence, as
high degree of executive ability,
and most commercially conserva-
tive policy in his management OF a
most difficult affair. He is followed
and upheld by all the better elements
of the organization. The real laborers
are with him almost to man. But the
organization has been made the en-
gine through which gang of idlers
and would-be looters have tried to
attack and overthrow modern in
dustry and modern civilization, to
destroy property rights, and thus de-
stroy all incentive to industry and
motive for progress. This element
finding itself powerless to lead or
drive the true friends of labor
from their conservative position, now
withdraws to set up rival camp at
enmity with its former associates.
The Knights of Labor will be greatly
benefited by this schism, and will be
much more potent for good in all re-
spects with the anarchist gang out
side of their camp in open war, than
within as false, or at best, half
hearted friends.